Wednesday, January 9, 2008
It seems to me that a premise of RDA is that the cataloging community must
"catch up" with information technology or go down the drain. Does anyone doubt
that information and database technology will continue to expand faster than
RDA's developers can dream? For example, quantuum computing or some other
marvel may make FRBR seem like a model T Ford. IT and database designers are
much less constrained by past practices than libraries that need to continue to
provide access (at some level of granularity) to their entire collections.
If in the late 1960's and early 1970's MARC had been more revolutionary it
would never have gained its widespread acceptance IMO. The future may be as
long
as the past (as Henriette Avram often said) but it's also a lot less
obvious. This does not mean that RDA is a bad thing but it means it can't be a
panacea IMO.
Regards,
Jim Agenbroad ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED])
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